Love Handles
You come down to the beachSweaty from a run Take off your top, get into the sea I watch from the shoreHaven’t seen your skin in two full yearsSteal […]
You come down to the beachSweaty from a run Take off your top, get into the sea I watch from the shoreHaven’t seen your skin in two full yearsSteal […]
Are you looking at meGlancing like thatSideways Did you mean to make me blushIs there a tension between usOr is it just me Can everybody see the lightcoming out of […]
This dusk is outrageousRain flows on warm tarmacthe fluid from gods’ veinswashing dusty trees I tell you I’m still in loveThis time I don’t cryBut droplets accrete on hairand skin […]
I wrote a poemIt proclaimedOne Day I Will Be Over You Cried messy tearsAnd realisedMy proclamation was untrue
I tell myself: the ten thousandth timeyou pushed me away,I gave up Ten thousand refusalsin action, word and intentachieved their aim at last How many past connectionsdid each no have to […]
On the far side of the river nowHaul myself out, bloodied, coughingFace down in the mud of a new land I almost drowned back thereThe current was far too strongNothing […]
This is message 1000,001from Mission Collapsed Star Do you read me?Contact lost RepeatDo you read me? Over My ring finger aches, overI miss you, over The light has goneI’m fading […]
My fantasy of destruction:I will destroy white complicityAnd the uncountable waysit holds up white supremacy. First,I will give up my shame and my silenceembrace my inchoate noisepuke and spray out my […]
I give thanks for that glimpse of my neighbour’s right breastShe was in the garden pulling on a tee shirt from the washing lineI was getting up from my desk […]
Do I still exist?I must exist,my skin’s crawling I feel inadequateI feel restlessI feel impotent I want companyI want touchI want eye contact I want notificationsI want likesI want a […]